List of Danish monarchs

This is a list of Danish monarchs since 950 (note that the actual list of kings of Denmark goes more than 200 years further back than that)

King/Queen of Denmark
Incumbent
Frederik X in 2018
Frederik X since 14 January 2024
Details
First monarch	Unknown (7th century or before)

Ruler	Reign	Notes / Also known as	Picture
Gorm the Old	c. 936 to 958/964	Son of Cnut or Harthacnut (Airde Conut) that was a king of Northumbria and later king of Denmark in the begining of the 10th century
Harald I Bluetooth	962/63/64-985	The wireless network was named after him Pledge the whole nation to christianity in 965
Sweyn Forkbeard (Sweyn I)	985/86-1014	fell off his horse at the age of 50
Harald II	1014-1018
Canute the Great	1018-1035	King of England, Denmark, Norway and parts of Sweden	(first contemporary portrait of a Danish king)
Harthacnute	1028-1042	also King of England
Magnus I Olafsson	1042-1047	also King of Norway
Sweyn II	1047-1076	Every following Danish monarch are descended from him
Harald III	1076-1080	the soft
Canute IV	1080-1086	first royal saint in Denmark
Olaf I	1086-1095	Hunger
Eric I	1095-1103	Evergood
Niels	1104-1134	Also called Nicholas
Eric II	1034-1037	assassinated, The Memorable
Eric III	1137-1146	Lamb
Sweyn III (Grathe) Canute V	1146-1157
Valdemar I Canute VI	1154-1182 1170-1202
Valdemar II (the victorious) Valdemar III (the younger)	1202-1241 1215-1231
Eric Ploughpenny	1232-1250
Abel	1250-1252	last Danish King to die in battle
Christopher I	1252-1259
Eric ‘’klipping’’	1259-1286	last Danish King to be murdered
Eric VI	1286-1319	Menved
Christopher II	1320-1326
Eric VII	1321-1326 1329-1332
Valdemar IV	1326-1329
Christopher II	1329-1332
Valdemar V Atterdag	1340-1375
Olaf II	1376-1387
Margaret I	1376-1412	Created and ruled the Kalmar Union
Eric VII	1396-1412-1439
Christopher III	(1439)1440-1448
Christian I	1448-1481
Hans	1481-1513
Christian II	1513-1523	last ruler of the Kalmar Union
Frederik I	1523-1533
Christian III	1534-1559
Frederik II	1559-1588
Christian IV	1588-1648	longest ruling
Frederik III	1648-1670	first absolute monarch from 1660
Christian V	1670-1699
Frederik IV	1699-1730
Christian VI	1730-1746
Frederik V	1746-1766
Christian VII	1766-1808
Frederik VI	1808-1839	last king of both Denmark and Norway
Christian VIII	1839-1848
Frederik VII	1848-1863	Gave the constitution of 1849
Christian IX	1863-1906	"Father-in-law of Europe"
Frederik VIII	1906-1912
Christian X	1912-1947	also King of Iceland
Frederik IX	1947-1972
Margrethe II	1972-2024
Frederik X	2024-present